How to address the clergy

Posted January 3, 2018 12:15 am by Hilary

At World Youth Day 2008 we kept running into various priests, bishops, and cardinals. There was an unfortunate incident where I met a cardinal and literally just said, “Oh, hi!”
*wince*
My fellow pilgrims refused to let me forget it the entire trip.
So when I heard that a bishop was going to be at the funeral I played this morning (there were actually two bishops, seventeen priests, a deacon, and two seminarians!), I did some quick research and made sure I had the correct moniker in my vocabulary just in case.
It gets a little confusing for me, trying to keep all the